Death Camp Uprising: The Escape from Sobibor Concentration Camp

by Nel Yomtov, Wilson Tortosa (Illustrator), Michael Bartolo (Illustrator)

Overview

Experience the events that followed the Sobibor death camp prisoner's decision to escape. Readers will discover a powerful story of human courage and mankind's fierce will to live.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496655332
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	05/01/2019
Series:	Great Escapes of World War II
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	25 MB
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Age Range:	8 - 14 Years

About the Author

Nel Yomtov is an award-winning author of children's nonfiction books and graphic novels. He specializes in writing about history, current events, biography, architecture, and military history. He has written numerous graphic novels for Capstone, including the recent School Strike for Climate, Journeying to New Worlds: A Max Axiom Super Scientist Adventure, and Cher Ami: Heroic Carrier Pigeon of World War I. In 2020 he self-published Baseball 100, an illustrated book featuring the 100 greatest players in baseball history. Nel lives in the New York City area.

Table of Contents

Condemned to die — Rush to freedom — The nightmare is over.

Interviews

readers love war stories; interesting, lesser known WWII events; graphic novel art style helps get reluctant readers excited about reading; cool illustrations and easy-to-follow story; true stories of the human experience of war

Editorial Reviews

...great additional purchases for nonfiction graphic collections and are ideal choices for reluctant and struggling readers. . . .“Great Escapes of World War II” is an excellent example of the best features of this imprint. . . .While the stories do touch on the violence and horrors of war, the facts are presented in a way that allows readers to think over the information and draw their own conclusions without bias. Readers will pick these up for the exciting escapes and find themselves reflecting on the difficult choices made during war. The art and text of these and other series from Graphic Library are generally uniform, making them a good choice for getting kids interested in various time periods in history or other nonfiction subjects, rather than a specific author or illustrator.

"Comical Information | Nonfiction Notions" SLJ

This series of graphic novels celebrates instances of heroism in the face of threats and possible death during World War II. . . .The storytelling is engaging and captures the tension of the escapes, while the illustrations make the accounts more accessible for young readers. While the dialogue is fictional, the escapes the books are based on are factual; the heroes were all real people. . . .effectively present[s] the scope of Nazi power during WWII for young readers...

Jewisjh Book Council

These stories are interesting, educational and totally engaging. The workings of the Resistance, the plight of Concentration Camp victims, the lengths to which individuals went to escape the Nazis, and the support provided from the local community are drawn and described in excellent detail. Slow or reluctant readers will find these to be compelling reads. . . .all excellent additions to any World War II collection.

Asociation of Jewish Libraries Reviews